Teddybears - Cobrastyle Video

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Stockholm-based collective Teddybears will  released their U.S. debut, "Soft Machine", on September 12th on Big Beat Recordings. The album, a mash up of  styles touching on garage punk beats, Electro, Dancehall and Krautrock,  features a diverse array of guest vocalists, including Iggy Pop. Neneh  Cherry, Elephant Man, Annie, Ebbot Lundberg of Soundtrack of Our Lives and  Mad Cobra. 

While new to the U.S., Teddybears have put out a  handful of albums in their native Sweden, beginning in the '90s as a  hardcore punk band, citing as influences the Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains and  NWA. Classmates Patrik and Jocke met at an art school in Stockholm where  they decided to form a grindcore band named Skull.  When Skull needed a  guitar player, they invited Jocke's brother Klas and changed the band's name  to Teddybears. 

Bassist Jocke recalls, "After a while our  drummer left the band to pursue a career as a sculptor, and so we learned  that cheap drum machines, electric guitars and vocoders could be a deadly  combination." 

With the change of the music, though, we started  to incorporate other kinds of vocals, and we have invited some very special  friends as guest vocalists. 

"Nowadays, there's not a lot of  punk in our music anymore I guess," Jocke continues. "We get some outlet for  that kind of frustration in other areas of our lives, like painting,  skateboarding and Nietzsche-reading."

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